The big threat facing several democracies, including Poland, Israel, and really much of the European Union, is not the delegitimization of rule of law or erosion of checks and balances by elected authorities, but legal institutions running amok to seize power to realize Plato’s concept of Philosopher King via the rule of the Jurisprudent. A dictatorship of the judiciary essentially overpowers sovereignty and democracy on behalf of a failing progressive elite. Bastions conserving the nation’s sovereignty, democratic will, and proper judicial-branch role, such as the Constitutional Tribunal in Poland, thus becomes the first and most urgent target of that failed elite and its judicial battalions. Iranians should be familiar with this concept, and we might well want to see what their anti-regime intellectuals can tell us.